In this issue:

• Introducing the Liberty BASIC Wire Frame Library - by Tom Nally
• Stylebits Corner - Listboxes - by Janet Terra
• IExpress Installer - by Welopez
• Tip Corner - Prompt - by Alyce Watson
• API Corner - Changing the Icon - by Alyce Watson
• Screen Capture of Window - by Alyce Watson
• Eddie's Lessons - by Alyce Watson
  • Filling a Combobox with Branch Labels - by Alyce Watson
  • Scrolling the Texteditor - by Alyce Watson
  • If/Then Nesting - by Alyce Watson
• Sprite Byte: More Cycling - by Alyce Watson
• DEMOS
  • Eddie, the Code Editor - by Alyce Watson
  • Moving Items Between Listboxes - by Alyce Watson
• Submission Guidelines
• Index

Notes from the editor:

Janet Terra shares another of her extremely popular Stylebits Corners in this issue. This month, the focus is on listboxes. Janet shows us how to move the scrollbar to the left side, or to make a multiple column listbox with a scrollbar on the bottom. She shows us how to change the appearance of our listboxes, and even how to allow the user to select multiple items at one time. Great one, Janet!

For more on listboxes, see the demo program that allows you to move items between listboxes, either by double-clicking on an item, or by clicking a button.

People often ask how to create custom installation programs for their Liberty BASIC applications. In a previous issue, we featured user reviews of many freeware and shareware installers that you can download from the internet. Did you know that you probably have a free installer on your computer already? It comes with Windows and it's called Iexpress. When I mentioned this built-in installer to Bill Lopez , he got very excited and put it through its paces. I implored him to write a tutorial on its use, and Bill is such a nice guy that he couldn't refuse! Not only is his tutorial informative, but it's quite amusing, too! Thanks so much, Bill!

Liberty BASIC has a very handy native command called PROMPT. It allows you to get a small amount of information typed by the user. The Tip Corner in this issue shows you how to use it.

The API Corner this month shows how to change a window's icon at runtime. Why would you want to do this? Is it hard? Read the article and find out!

In response to a request on the Liberty BASIC Yahoo group, I wrote a program that does a screen capture of a window. We've seen screen captures of the entire screen before, but this one shows you how to get the coordinates of your window and capture the entire window as a bitmap, which you can save to disk. Very handy!

Eddie, the code editor, is back this month and he is sporting a new combobox that holds the branch labels in the code. The lessons this month deal with filling the combobox, and then going to the correct spot in the code when the combobox is clicked. The methods can be used for other purposes, so be sure to read this, even if you aren't engaged in writing your own code editor.

There's also an article on If/Then Nesting in this issue. Did you know that you can include an If/Then statement inside of another one?

Finally, there is a new Sprite Byte that demonstrates more about the CYCLESPRITE command. This article and demo show some neat tricks for reusing the loaded bitmaps.

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- Alyce Watson